March 16, 2005

Speaker Biographies

Richard Aboulafia is the vice president of analysis at Teal Group. He manages consulting projects for clients in the commercial and military aircraft field, and has advised numerous companies, including most prime and many second- and third-tier contractors. He also writes and edits Teal's World Military and Civil Aircraft Briefing, a forecasting tool covering over 135 aircraft programs and markets. Before he joined Teal, Richard analyzed the jet engine market at Jane's Information Group, served as an aerospace industry consultant for an international trade advisory company, and supported research projects at the Brookings Institution.

Claude E. Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of science, and technology policy studies at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (2001). In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization with Mark Groombridge. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Ford administration, on the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and as a co-staff director of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

Edward M. Graham, senior fellow since 1990, has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York since 1992. Previously he was an associate professor in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University (1988-90), an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (1983-88), a principal administrator of the Planning and Evaluation Unit at the OECD (1981-82), an international economist in the Office of International Investment Affairs at the US Treasury (1979-80), and an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974-78). He is the author or coauthor of a number of studies, including Reforming Korea's Industrial Conglomerates (2003), Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Antiglobal Activists and Multinational Enterprises (2000), Global Competition Policy and Competition Policies in the Global Economy (1997) with J. David Richardson, Global Corporations and National Governments (1996), and Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (3d ed. 1995) with Paul R. Krugman.

Phillip L. Swagel is a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI in March 2005, he served as chief of staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He has previously been a senior economist at the Council, a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University, and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund. He has written on international trade policy, the political economy of the welfare state, and most recently on Social Security.

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